YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Back in early August of 2008, Your Mama discussed (and kinda dissed) Oscar nominated actress Natalie Portman's posh 2-bedroom digs in a Richard Meier designed green glass tower in New York City which she had listed for sale at $6,550,000 and which records show she sold in late November of 2008 for it's full asking price to an unknown entity called Monkway Properties Inc.

Then, a couple of weeks ago Your Mama discussed property in the gated Laughlin Park community in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles which has a long history of celebrity ownership. In 1997, formerly married actors Dermot Mulroney and the dee-veeon Catherine Keener bought the Linwood Drive dwelling from Grammy winning musician Chick Corea. In 2005 Mister Mulroney and Miz Keener went splitsville and sold the quirky but homey house to a business entity we are 99.9% certain belonged to recently deceased saxophonist LeRoi Moore who was a long time member of The Dave Matthews Band.

At the time we discussed the property, which was listed at $3,199,000, it was under contract and we recklessly bet the children our long bodied bitches Linda and Beverly that the star magnet mini-manse was being bought by yet another celebrity. And, at the risk of sounding like we were gloating, Your Mama was right.

Thanks to the Los FelizFlapjaw (and confirmed with a peep into the property records), Your Mama has learned the Linwood Drive domicile was purchased by none other that fresh-faced Natalie Portman who paid $3,250,000 for the 4 bedroom and 2 bathroom residence which, the children will note, is a bit higher than the asking price leading Your Mama to believe there was considerable interest in the 1930 mini-estate.

Natalie is not a paparazzi whore - she does everything to avoid them ...

Still shocked she's decamped to the West coast ... she will have made quite a profit from the sale of her apartment. Given that she lived at 165 I would have expected her to go for something modern in LA, obviously not.

Also, one could say her choice of Laughlin Park shows how she won't court the Paps. It's a gated neighborhood. No shots coming in and out of the garage possible, a la Lilo and Paris. If you want to slip in and out quietly, this is a great house to do it from. If you want to create the chaos, there are better places to do it from.

I love Laughlin Park. And Hancock Park. Guess I'm getting old when I'm ready to trade the Hollywood Hills view modern for such things...

From the description it sounds like a very interesting and beautiful house.........fitting for one of the most exquisitely beautiful faces, (and necks), ever to grace the movie screen. I could only hope for a large Sargent portrait of the new owner hanging over the mantlepiece.

I figured this one would sell quick. 2:18 & 7:00, according to the celebrity address aerial site, Lily Tomlin sold her home on DeMille Dr in Laughlin Park and has lived on Weddington St. in North Hollywood since January 2003.

See, now I think Miss Portman will do quite well here, seeing as she was soo amazing as Anne Boleyn~ she and Sean could play the "laughing too loud in the court" scene over and over. Plus she seems like an orange oil kind of gal... ;)

During the 90s, Lily and her partner Jane Wagner lived around the corner on De Mille Drive in a lovely old Spanish estate built in 1920 by oilman Frank Wood. The house was rented in the late 1920s by Maurice Chevalier and was later owned by W.C. Fields. As Joe Gillis said above, Los Feliz has always been popular with celebrities and Laughlin Park's private roads and gates give it the added benefit of privacy.

This is a wonderful property and I am glad you took a vacation from the glass and steel "homes" where all that matters is the sound system in the exercise room. Who would have guessed you could find something with Main Line feel in this area. Well done Natalie!

Looks like Natty is finally surrendering to the "corruption" and the artificiality of H'wood!!!She unloaded a beautiful house about two years ago in New York. Gorgeous! Overlooking the ocean!

Poor thing seems rather self-destructive. (Buying a house in Los Feliz!) Deeply angry about Gael's baby with the same woman with whom he cheated on her, not able to find lasting love with any of her eccentric choices ever since, unable to attract interest from the ghosts of boyfriends past, especially not even the "nice Jewish boy" her family liked so well ten years ago!

At first I distrusted the Sean Penn connection. Now I'm not sure. Natalie is pursuing "acting projects" with Brad Pitt, too. In fact she's already signed up for one. I don't care how secure and secluded this house is, Natalie Portman is walking into the eye of the storm, bubbies.

She can kiss any semblance of privacy good-bye! And those rude glances ala Jackie Kennedy, that used to suffice when she went for walks in Central Park, will do her no good with the El Lay paparrazzi contingent. They are a devouring lot. But then, maybe she is buying this huge house for her parents. Oh wait! She already did that in Long Island.